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■py^f/ the merits ° f ° ur lunch 

S|^^K ROOMS, and incidentally to pro- 
-ScfeSScLy mote a little good literature, in- 
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the value of this advertising, to us, would be 
negligible, and would probably react to our dis- 
advantage; therefore, the continued pub- 
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FRANK B. WILLARD 

President Hartford Lunch Co. 



ffl&<&Bg>s 



A LITTLE JOURNEY 

I TO THE HOME OF 

* Benjamin Franklin 

American Statesman 

BY ELBERT HUBBARD 



Published by THE HARTFORD LUNCH 
COMPANY, NEW YORK, and Printed by THE 
ROYCROFTERS, EAST AURORA, NEW YORK 



Copyright, 1918 
By The Roycrofters 



JAN -2 1919 






FOREWORD 



/T is just 212 years ago, last January 19, 
that Benjamin Franklin was born, 
Pennsylvania's most distinguished citizen 
and a man who was indispensable to the 
establishment of these United States of 
America. 

9 In point of all-round development, Frank- 
lin must stand as our foremost American. 
We know of no one who ever lived a busier 
life, a happier life, a life more useful to 
others than Poor Richard. He is our greatest 
example of thrift. He wrote more on it and 
wrote better than any other man we know. 
He became for his day the richest man in 
America — richest not only in money, but in 



healthy brains, sanity, good-cheer, inter- 
national influence. 

^We have chosen Benjamin Franklin as 
the subject for one of the series of Hartford 
Classics, first, because he is a man well 
worthy of emulation at this time, and, 
second, because he is the patron saint of the 
Roycroft fraternity — in fact, Elbert Hubbard 
resembled Franklin so closely, not only in 
features but in habits of life, that he could 
almost be said to be a reincarnation of the 
distinguished signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. 

<&I bespeak for this sympathetic Little 
Journey the warm approval of our host of 
patrons. 




Benjamin Franklin 

enjamin Franklin 

was twelve years old. 
He was large and strong 
and fat and good-na- 
tured, and had a full- 
moon face and red cheeks 
that made him look like a country- 
bumpkin. He was born in Boston within 
twenty yards of the church called " Old 
South," but the Franklins now lived at 
the corner of Congress and Hanover 
Streets, where to this day there swings 
in the breeze a gilded ball, and on it the 
legend, "Josiah Franklin, Soap-Boiler." 
<I Benjamin was the fifteenth child in the 

5 

Benjamin Franklin was an exponent of frugal habits. 
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family; and several having grown to 
maturity and flown, there were thirteen 
at the table when little Ben first sat in the 
high chair. But the Franklins were not 
superstitious, and if little Ben ever prayed 
that another would be born, just for luck, 
we know nothing of it. His mother loved 
him very much and indulged him in many 
ways, for he was always her baby boy, 
but the father thought that because he 
was good-natured he was also lazy and 
should be disciplined. 
Once upon a time the father was packing 
a barrel of beef in the cellar, and Ben 
was helping him, and as the father always 
said grace at table, the boy suggested he 
ask a blessing, once for all, on the barrel 
of beef and thus economize breath. But 
economics along that line did not appeal 
to Josiah Franklin, for this was early in 
Seventeen Hundred Eighteen, and Josiah 
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living. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



was a Presbyterian and lived in Boston. 
^ The boy was not religious, for he never 
" went forward," and only went to church 
because he had to, and read " Plutarch's 
Lives " with much more relish than he 
did " Saint's Rest." But he had great 
curiosity and asked questions until his 
mother would say, " Goodness gracious, 
go and play! " 

And as the boy was n't very religious or 
very fond of work, his father and mother 
decided that there were only two careers 
open for him: the mother proposed that 
he be made a preacher, but his father said, 
send him to sea. To go to sea under a 
good strict captain would discipline him,and 
to send him off and put him under the care 
of the Reverend Doctor Thirdly would 
answer the same purpose — which course 
should be pursued? But Pallas Athene, 
who was to watch over this lad's destinies 

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would probably be a patron of the HARTFORD 
LUNCH. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



all through life, preserved him from either. 
<I His parents' aspirations extended even 
to his becoming captain of a schooner or 
pastor of the First Church at Roxbury. 
And no doubt he could have sailed the 
schooner around the globe in safety, or 
filled the pulpit with a degree of power 
that would have caused consternation to 
reign in the heart of every other preacher 
in town; but Fate saved him that he might 
take the Ship of State, when she threat- 
ened to strand on the rocks of adversity, 
and pilot her into peaceful waters, and 
to preach such sermons to America that 
their eloquence still moves us to better 
things «*» &<> 

Parents think that what they say about 
their children goes, and once in an awfully 
long time it does, but the men who be- 
come great and learned usually do so in 
spite of their parents — which remark was 
8 

Franklin had the " coffee-house " habit — a wholesome 
precedent. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



first made by Martin Luther, but need 
not be discredited on that account. 
Ben's oldest brother was James. Now, 
James was nearly forty; he was tall and 
slender, stooped a little, and had sandy 
whiskers, and a nervous cough, and 
positive ideas on many subjects — one of 
which was that he was a printer. His 
apprentice, or " devil," had left him, 
because the devil did not like to be cuffed 
whenever the compositor shuffled his 
fonts. James needed another apprentice, 
and proposed to take his younger brother 
and make a man of him if the old folks 
were willing. The old folks were willing 
and Ben was duly bound by law to his 
brother, agreeing to serve him faithfully 
as Jacob served Laban for seven years and 
two years more. 

Science has explained many things, but 
it has not yet told why it sometimes 

9 

Our minds, to a large degree, are controlled by our 
stomachs. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



happens that when seventeen eggs are 
hatched, the brood will consist of sixteen 
barnyard fowls and one eagle. 
James Franklin was a man of small 
capacity, whimsical, jealous and arbi- 
trary. But if he cuffed his apprentice 
Benjamin when the compositor blundered, 
and when he did n't, it was his legal 
right; and the master who did not 
occasionally kick his apprentices was 
considered derelict to duty. The boy ran 
errands, cleaned the presses, swept the 
shop, tied up bundles, did the tasks that 
no one else would do; and incidentally, 
" learned the case." Then he set type, and 
after a while ran a press. And in those days 
a printer ranked above a common 
mechanic. A man who was a printer was 
a literary man, as were the master 
printers of London and Venice. A printer 
was a man of taste. All editors were printers 
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of our digestion. HARTFORD L UNCI! CO 



and usually composed the matter as they 
set it up in type. Thus we now have a 
room called a. " composing-room," a 
" composing-stick, " etc. People once 
addressed " Mr. Printer," not Mr. Editor, 
and when they met " Mr. Printer " on the 
street removed their hats — but not in 
Philadelphia. 

Young Franklin felt a proper degree of 
pride in his work, if not vanity. In fact, 
he himself has said that vanity is a good 
thing, and whenever he saw it come 
flaunting down the street, always made 
way, knowing that there was virtue 
somewhere back of it — out of sight 
perhaps, but still there. James, being a 
brother, had no confidence in Ben's 
intellect, so when Ben wrote short 
articles on this and that, he tucked them 
under the door so that James would find 
them in the morning. James showed these 

11 

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requires discrimination in fuel. 

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articles to his friends, and they all voted 
them very fine, aDd concluded they must 
have been written by Doctor So-and-So, 
Ph. D., who, like Lord Bacon, was a very 
modest man and did not care to see his 
name in print. 

Yet, by and by, it came out who it was 
that wrote the anonymous " hot stuff,' ' 
and then James did not think it was quite 
so good as he at first thought, and more- 
over, declared he knew whose it was all 
the time. Ben was eighteen and had read 
Montaigne, and Collins, and Shaftesbury, 
and Hume. When he wrote he expressed 
thoughts that then were considered very 
dreadful, but that can now be heard 
proclaimed even in good orthodox 
churches. But Ben had wit and to spare, 
and he leveled it at government officials 
and preachers, and these gentlemen did 
not relish the jokes — people seldom relish 
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the man digging a trench, and maintain his efficiency. 

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jokes at their own expense — and they 
sought to suppress the newspaper that 
the Franklin brothers published. 
The blame for all the trouble James 
heaped upon Benjamin, and all the credit 
for success he took to himself. James 
declared that Ben had the big head — and 
he probably was right; but he forgot that 
the big head, like mumps and measles 
and everything else in life, is self -limiting 
and good in its way. So, to teach Ben his 
proper place, James reminded him that 
he was only an apprentice, with three 
years yet to serve, and that he should be 
seen seldom and not heard all the time, 
and that if he ran away he would send a 
constable after him and fetch him back. 
<I Ben evidently had a mind open to sug- 
gestive influences, for the remark about 
running away prompted him to do so. 
He sold some of his books and got him- 

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WHOLESOME FOODS. 

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self secreted on board a ship about to sail 
for New York. 

Arriving at New York, in three days he 
found the broad-beamed Dutch had small 
use for printers and no special admiration 
for the art preservative; and he started 
for Philadelphia. 

Every one knows how he landed in a 
small boat at the foot of Market Street 
with only a few coppers in his pocket, 
and made his way to a bakeshop and asked 
for a threepenny loaf of bread, and being 
told they had no threepenny loaves, then 
asked for threepenny 's worth of any kind 
of bread, and was given three loaves. 
Where is the man who in a strange land 
has not suffered rather than reveal his 
ignorance before a shopkeeper? When I 
was first in England and could not com- 
pute readily in shillings and pence, I 
would toss out a gold piece when I made a 
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in our scheme of cooking. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



purchase and assume a 'igh and 'aughty 
mein. And that Philadelphia baker prob- 
ably died in blissful ignorance of the fact 
that the youth who was to be America's 
pride bought from him three loaves of 
bread when he wanted only one. 
The runaway Ben had a downy beard all 
over his face, and as he took his three 
loaves and walked up Market Street, 
with a loaf under each arm, munching on 
the third, he was smiled upon in merry 
mirth by the buxom Deborah Read, as 
she stood in the doorway of her father's 
house. Yet Franklin got even with her, 
for some months after, he went back that 
way and courted her, and she grew 
to love him, and they " exchanged 
promises," he says. After some months of 
work and love-making, Franklin sailed 
away to England on a wild-goose chase. 
He promised to return soon and make 

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up-to-date in service. HARTFORD LUNCH CO 




Deborah his wife. But he wrote only one 
solitary letter to the brokenhearted girl 
and did not come back for nearly two 
years £•» s+ 

[ME is the great avenger as well 
as educator; only the education 
is usually deferred until it no 
longer avails in this incarnation, and is 
valuable only for advice — and nobody 
wants advice. Deathbed repentances may 
be legal-tender for salvation in another 
world, but for this they are below par, 
and regeneration that is postponed until 
the man has no further capacity to sin is 
little better. For sin is only perverted 
power, and the man without capacity to 
sin neither has ability to do good — is n't 
that so? His soul is a Dead Sea that 
supports neither ameba nor fish, neither 
noxious bacilli nor useful life. Happy is the 
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—rich loith goodness. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



man who conserves his God-given power 
until wisdom and not passion shall direct 
it. So, the younger in life a man makes 
the resolve to turn and live, the better for 
that man and the better for the world. 
<I Once upon a time Carlyle took Milburn, 
the blind preacher, out on to Chelsea 
embankment and showed the sightless 
man where Franklin plunged into the 
Thames and swam to Blackfriars Bridge. 
* He might have stayed here," said 
Thomas Carlyle, " and become a swim- 
ming-teacher, but God had other work for 
him! " Franklin had many opportunities 
to stop and become a victim of arrested 
development, but he never embraced the 
occasion. He could have stayed in Boston 
and been a humdrum preacher, or a 
thrifty sea-captain, or an ordinary printer; 
or he could have remained in London, and 
been, like his friend Ralph, a clever 

17 

Our BEANS are baked Boston style. 

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writer of doggerel, and a supporter of the 
political party that would pay the most. 
<I Benjamin Franklin was twenty years 
old when he returned from England. The 
ship was beaten back by headwinds and 
blown out of her course by blizzards, and 
becalmed at times, so it took eighty-two 
days to make the voyage. A worthy old 
clergyman tells me this was so ordained 
and ordered that Benjamin might have 
time to meditate on the follies of youth 
and shape his course for the future, and I 
do not argue the case, for I am quite 
willing to admit that my friend, the 
clergyman, has the facts. 
Yes, we must be " converted," " born 
again," " regenerated," or whatever you 
may be pleased to call it. Sometimes — 
very often — it is love that reforms a man, 
sometimes sickness, sometimes sore be- 
reavement. Doctor Talmage says that 
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with Saint Paul it was a sunstroke, and 
this may be so, for surely Saul of Tarsus 
on his way to Damascus to persecute 
Christians was not in love. Love forgives 
to seventy times seven and persecutes 
nobody m» $+ 

We do not know just what it was that 
turned Franklin; he had tried folly — we 
know that — and he just seems to have 
anticipated Browning and concluded: 

It 's wiser being good than bad; 

It 's safer being meek than fierce; 

It 's better being sane than mad. 

On this voyage the young printer was 

thrust down into the depths and made to 

wrestle with the powers of darkness; and 

in the remorse of soul that came over him, 

he made a liturgy to be repeated night 

and morning, and at midday. There were 

many items in this ritual — all of which 

were corrected and amended from time to 

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time in after-years. Here are a few para- 
graphs that represent the longings and 
„trend of the lad's heart. His prayer was: 
" That I may have tenderness for the 
meek; that I may be kind to my neighbors, 
good-natured to my companions and 
hospitable to strangers. Help me, God! 
<J " That I may be averse to craft and 
overreaching, abhor extortion and every 
kind of weakness and wickedness. Help 
me, God! 

" That I may have constant regard to 
honor and probity; that I may possess an 
innocent and good conscience, and at 
length become truly virtuous and mag- 
nanimous. Help me, God! 
" That I may refrain from calumny and 
detraction; that I may abhor deceit, and 
avoid lying, envy and fraud, flattery, 
hatred, malice and ingratitude. Help me, 
God! " 



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naise of PURE OLIVE OIL. 

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Then in addition, he formed rules of con- 
duct and wrote them out and committed 
them to memory. The maxims he adopted 
are old as thought, yet can never become 
antiquated, for in morals there is nothing 
either new or old, neither can there be &» 
On that return voyage from England, he 
inwardly vowed that his first act on 
getting ashore would be to find Deborah 
Read and make peace with her and his 
conscience. And true to his vow, he 
found her, but she was the wife of another. 
Her mother believed that Franklin had 
run away simply to get rid of her, and the 
poor girl, dazed and forlorn, bereft of 
will, had been induced to marry a man by 
the name of Rogers, who was a potter 
and also a potterer, but who Franklin 
says was " a very good potter." 
After some months, Deborah left the 
potter, because she did not like to be 

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our grandmothers. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



reproved with a strap, and went home to 
her mother. 

Franklin was now well in the way of 
prosperity, aged twenty-four, with a little 
printing business, plans plus, and am- 
bitions to spare. He had had his little 
fling in life, and had done various things 
of which he was ashamed; and the foolish 
things that Deborah had done were no worse 
than those of which he had been guilty. 
So he called on her, and they talked it 
over and made honest confessions that 
are good for the soul. The potter dis- 
appeared — no one knew where — some 
said he was dead, but Benjamin and 
Deborah did not wear mourning. They 
took rumor's word for it, and thanked 
God, and went to a church and were 
married $* s^ 

Deborah brought to the firm a very small 
dowry; and Benjamin contributed a 

Out CHICKEN- PIES remind. one of the old Neu 
England Christmas dinner. 

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bright baby boy, aged two years, captured 

no one knows just where. This boy was 

William Franklin, who grew up into a 

very excellent man, and the worst that 

can be said of him is that he became 

Governor of New Jersey. He loved and 

respected his father, and called Deborah 

mother, and loved her very much. And 

she was worthy of all love, and ever 

treated him with tenderness and gentlest 

considerate care. Possibly a blot on the 

'scutcheon may, in the working of God's 

providence, not always be a dire misfortune 

for it sometimes has the effect of binding 

broken hearts as nothing else can, as a 

cicatrice toughens the fiber. 

Deborah had not much education, but she 

had good, sturdy common sense, which is 

better if you are forced to make choice. 

She set herself to help her husband in 

every way possible, and so far as I know, 

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ucts of our own bakery — homemade. 

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never sighed for one of those things you 
call " a career. " She even worked in the 
printing-office, folding, stitching, and 
doing up bundles. 

Long years afterward, when Franklin was 
Ambassador of the American Colonies in 
France, he told with pride that the clothes 
he wore were spun, woven, cut out, and 
made into garments — all by his wife's 
own hands. Franklin's love for Deborah 
was very steadfast. Together they became 
rich and respected, won worldwide fame, 
and honors came that way such as no 
American before or since has ever 
received &+■ &+■ 

And when I say, " God bless all good 
women who help men do their work," I 
simply repeat the words once used by 
Benjamin Franklin when he had Deborah 
in mind s«» &* 



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themselves. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 




HEN Franklin was forty-two, 
he had accumulated a ortune of 
seventy-five thousand dollars. 
It gave him an income of about four 
thousand dollars a year, which he said was 
all he wanted; so he sold out his business, 
intending to devote his entire energies to 
the study of science and languages. He 
had lived just one-half his days; and had 
he then passed out, his life could have 
been summed up as one of the most useful 
that ever has been lived. He had founded 
and been the life of the Junto Club — the 
most sensible and beneficent club of 
which I ever heard. 

The series of questions asked at every 
meeting of the Junto, so mirror the life 
and habit of thought of Franklin that we 
had better glance at a few of them: 
1. Have you read over these queries this 
morning, in order to consider what you 

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on the old home style of cookinq. 

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might have to offer the Junto, touching 
any one of them? 

2. Have you met with anything in the 
author you last read, remarkable, or 
suitable to be communicated to the 
Junto; particularly in history, morality, 
poetry, physics, travels, mechanical arts, 
or other parts of knowledge? 

3. Do you know of a fellow-citizen, who 
has lately done a worthy action, deserving 
praise and imitation; or who has lately 
committed an error, proper for us to be 
warned against and avoid? 

4. What unhappy effects of intemperance 
have you lately observed or heard; of 
imprudence, of passion, or of any other 
vice or folly? 

5. What happy effects of temperance, of 
prudence, of moderation, or of any other 
virtue? &+ &+ 

6. Do you think of anything at present in 

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CREAM in the kitchen. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



which the members of the Junto may be 
serviceable to mankind, to their country, 
to their friends, or to themselves? 

7. Hath any deserving stranger arrived 
in town since last meeting that you have 
heard of? And what have you heard or 
observed of his character or merits? And 
whether, think you, it lies in the power of 
the Junto to oblige him, or encourage him 
as he deserves? 

8. Do you know of any deserving young 
beginner, lately set up, whom it lies in the 
power of the Junto in any way to en- 
courage? £•»«•»* 

9. Have you lately observed any defect in 
the laws of your country, of which it 
would be proper to move the legislature 
for an amendment? Or do you know of 
any beneficial law that is wanting? 

10. Have you lately observed any encroach- 
ment on the just liberties of the people? 

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genuine, but your stomach knows. 

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11. In what manner can the Junto, or 
any of its members, assist you in any of 
your honorable designs? 

12. Have you any weighty affair on hand 
in which you think the advice of the Junto 
may be of service? 

13. What benefits have you lately re- 
ceived from any man not present? 

14. Is there any difficulty in matters of 
opinion, of justice and injustice, which you 
would gladly have discussed at this time? 
<I The Junto led to the establishment, by 
Franklin, of the Philadelphia Public 
Library, which became the parent of all 
libraries in America. He also organized 
and equipped a fire-company; paved and 
lighted the streets of Philadelphia; estab- 
lished a high school and an academy for 
the study of English branches; founded 
the Philadelphia Public Hospital; in- 
vented the toggle-joint printing-press, 

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gastronomies. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



the Franklin stove, and various other 
useful mechanical devices. 
After his retirement from business, 
Franklin enjoyed seven years of what he 
called leisure, but they were years of 
study and application; years of happiness 
and sweet content, but years of aspiration 
and an earnest looking into the future. 
His experiments with kite and key had 
made his name known in all the scientific 
circles of Europe, and his suggestive 
writings on the subject of electricity had 
caused Goethe to lay down his pen and go 
to rubbing amber for the edification of all 
Weimar. Franklin was in correspondence 
with the greatest minds of Europe, and 
what his " Poor Richard's Almanac " had 
done for the plain people of America, his 
pamphlets were dow doing for the phi- 
losophers of the Old World. 
In Seventeen Hundred Fifty-four, he 



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vrithout regard to the hereafter. 

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wrote a treatise showing the Colonies that 
they must be united, and this was the 
first public word that was to grow and 
crystallize and become the United States 
of America. Before that, the Colonies were 
simply single, independent, jealous and 
bickering overgrown clans. Franklin 
showed for the first time that they must 
unite in mutual aims. 
In Seventeen Hundred Fifty-seven, 
matters were getting a little strained be- 
tween. the Province of Pennsylvania and 
England. " The lawmakers of England 
do not understand us — some one should 
go there as an authorized agent to plead 
our cause," and Franklin was at once 
chosen as the man of strongest personality 
and soundest sense. So Franklin went to 
England and remained there for five years 
as agent for the Colonies. 
He then returned home, but after two 
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years the Stamp Act had stirred up the 
public temper to a degree that made 
revolution imminent, and Franklin again 
went to England to plead for justice. The 
record of the ten years he now spent in 
London is told by Bancroft in a hundred 
pages. Bancroft is very good, and I have 
no desire to rival him, so suffice it to say 
that Franklin did all that any man could 
have done to avert the coming War of the 
Revolution. Burke has said that when he 
appeared before Parliament to be ex- 
amined as to the condition of things in 
America, it was like a lot of schoolboys 
interrogating the master, fl With the voice 
and tongue of a prophet, Franklin fore- 
told the English people what the outcome 
of their treatment of America would be. 
Pitt and a few others knew the greatness 
of Franklin, and saw that he was right, 
but the rest smiled in derision. 

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He sailed for home in Seventeen Hundred 
Seventy-five, and urged the Continental 
Congress to issue the Declaration of 
Independence, of which he became a 
signer. Then the war came, and had not 
Franklin gone to Paris and made an ally 
of France, and borrowed money, the Con- 
tinental Army could not have been main- 
tained in the field. He remained in France 
for nine years, and was the pride and pet 
of the people. His sound sense, his good 
humor, his distinguished personality, 
gave him the freedom of society every- 
where. He had the ability to adapt him- 
self to conditions, and was everywhere at 
home &* $—■ 

Once, he attended a memorable banquet 
in Paris shortly after the close of the 
Revolutionary War. Among the speakers 
was the English Ambassador, who re- 
sponded to the toast, "Great Britain." The 
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Ambassador dwelt at length on England's 
greatness, and likened her to the sun that 
sheds its beneficent rays on all. The next 
toast was " America," and Franklin was 
called upon to respond. He began very mod- 
estly by say hog : "The Republic is too young 
to be spoken of in terms of praise; her 
career is yet to come, and so, instead of 
America, I will name you a man, George 
Washington — the Joshua who successfully 
commanded the sun to stand still." The 
Frenchmen at the board forgot the 
courtesy due their English guest, and 
laughed needlessly loud. 
Franklin was regarded in Paris as the man 
who had both planned the War of the 
Revolution, and fought it. They said, 
" He despoiled the thunderbolt of its 
danger, and snatched sovereignty out of 
the hand of King George of England." 
No doubt that his ovation was largely 



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waste of food or money. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



owing to the fact that he was supposed to 
have plucked whole handfuls of feathers 
from England's glory, and surely they 
were pretty nearly right. 
In point of all-round development, 
Franklin must stand as the foremost 
American. The one intent of his mind was 
to purify his own spirit, to develop his 
intellect on every side, and make his body 
the servant of his soul. His passion was 
to acquire knowledge, and the desire of 
his heart was to communicate it. 
We know of no man who ever lived a fuller 
life, a happier life, a life more useful to 
other men, than Benjamin Franklin. For 
forty-two years he gave the constant 
efforts of his life to his country, and during 
all that time no taint of a selfish action 
can be laid to his charge. Almost his last 
public act was to petition Congress to pass 
an act for the abolition of slavery. He died 
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in Seventeen Hundred Ninety, and as 

you walk up Arch Street, Philadelphia, 

only a few squares from the spot where 

stood his printing-shop, you can see the 

place where he sleeps. 

The following epitaph, written by himself, 

however, does not appear on the simple 

monument that marks his grave: 

The Body Of 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, 

(Like the cover of an old book, 

Its contents torn out, 

And stripped of its lettering and gilding,) 

Lies here food for worms. 

Yet the work itself shall not be lost, 

For it will (as he believes) appear once more 

In a new 

And more beautiful Edition 

Corrected and Amended 

By 

The Author. 

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We try to serve just enough, and charge proportion- 
ately. Our prices are very moderate. 

HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



This elimination of waste, of both food and money, ii 
a double saving. HARTFORD LUNCH CO. 



HARTFORD LUNCH 
^ COMPANY £* 

OWNED AND OPERATED BY 

FRANK B. WILLARD 

and 
JOHN P. QUINN 

Pure Food Specialists 




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